The Sea Dogs: Privateers, Plunder and Piracy in the Elizabethan AgeHere are the daring exploits of the Elizabethan sea dogs who established England as the foremost maritime and colonial power in the 1500s and thus bequeathed the nation a heritage that would endure for many generations. |
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